Textile-finishing machine



May '7, 1929.

F. w,l P. RosE E1' AL TEXTILE FINISHING'MACHINE Filed upv. 15, 192e f www ATTORNEYS Patented May 7, 1929.

UNITED STATE-s PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK W. I?. ROSE, OF CLIFTON, AND CHRISTIAN VERNER, OF PASSAIC, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORS T A. HAEBERLIT, OF PATERSON, JERSEY.

TEXTILE-Fiuminata MACHINE.

Application levNovexnber 15, 1926. Serial No. 148,541.

lihis invention relates to a textile finishing machine for the purpose of smoothing the fabric and imparting a high lustre and natural sheen to the cloth, the invention being in the nature of an improvement over prior United States Letters Patent No. 1,571,802 granted February 2, 1926.` l n machine constructed in accordance with the prior patent has been found objectionable due to the excessive pull necessarily exerted on the cloth to feed the same through the machine between the pressure table and the finishing rolls. lt is therefore one of the objects ofthe present invention to overcome this objection by providing an improved feeding means in the nature of spaced movable elements preferably drums having moving cloth supporting surfaces which coact with the cloth at the points of engagement of the same by the finishing rolls whereby to uniformly distribute the pull exerted on the cloth for feeding the same through the machine.

rinother objectionable feature of the former machine is due to the necessity of having to run the cloth through the machine more than once to effect the finish of both sides and the present invention comprehends a machine in which provision is made for operating on both sides of the cloth during a single running of the same therethrough.

lllith the above recited and other objects in view, the invention resides in the novel constriution set forth in the following specifica` tion, particu!arly pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated. in the acrnnpanying drawings, it being uin'lerstood that the right is reserved to f iubodiments other than those actually illustrated hereunto the full extent 'indicated by the general .meaning of the terms in which the claims are expressed.

in the drawings,

.Figure 1 is a side view of a machine constructed in accordance with the invention.

Figure 2 is a detail fragmentary transverse sectional view taken approximately on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings by characters of reference designates the frame of the machine upon which is mounted in suitable bearings longitudinally spaced pairs or sets of nishing elements or rolls 11-11 and 12-12 each of which rolls is of identical construction and includes a hollow tubular core 13 from the opposite ends of which the bearing shaft sections or trunnions le project. A plurality of annular felt disks 15 of substantially uniform thickness are positioned upon the core and are spaced by annular spacer elements 16 which are of lesser diameter than the felt disks 15. The disks 15 and spacer elements 1G are j )ressed and clamped together between the opposite ends of the core by suitable clamping members 17 so that the rollers present a plurality of spaced felt disk peripheries which admit of compression and lateral movement or flapping rlhe structure of the rolls as heretofore described is the same as that set forth in the prior patent here tofore cited.

As in the prior case the roll A of fabric to be finished is suitably supported at one end of the machine from whence it is trained through a suitable apparatus B for applying the oil or other fatty mixtures. In lieu, however, of training the cloth between the iinishing rolls and a pressure table and thence around a guiding and driving` roller to a. receivingroll which necessarily localiaes the pull on the cloth and tends to distort and inure the same, the present invention comjgire` hends the employment of a plurality of combined pressure and feeding drums 18 and 19 one of which is employed for each pair or set of finishing rolls. The drinn 18 is mount ed or journaled in a bearing 2O for adjustment toward and away from the finishing rolls 11 and said adjustmeirt accomplisheiil by any suitable means such es that shown or its equivalimt. The fabric is trained from the apparatus B around a yguide 21 thence over the Atace of the drinn ltl and `around a guide 22, the drinn being` positively driven in the direction indicated by the arrow to feed the cloth and at the saine time to impinge the upper surface taugentially against the periphery of the finishing rolls 11-11. The drum 19 is journaled iu a bearing 23 which is adjustable by any suitable means such as that illi'lst-rated or its equivalent., and the material is trained from the guide 22 around a guide 211 thence around the drum 19 and the guides 25 and 26 over a feed roller 27 and guide 28 to the receiving roll 29. The portion of the material trained around the LLrum 19 allows for the impingement of the under surface against the finishing rolls 12--12 so that the opposite surface to that nislied by the rolls 11-11 is operated upon.

Under this construction and arrangement the machine in the presence of the finishing Y rolls is uniformly distributed to eliminate an excessive pull at any one or localized point. Furthermore', the points at Which the finishing operations are accomplished are backed up by a moving surface While it is obvious that both sides or surfaces of the cloth are finished by a single ruiming of the material through the machine.

We claim: e

lgln a textile finishing machine, a plurality of longitudinally spaced pairs of cylindrical finishing rolls adapted to be driven to rub the material for imparting a high luster thereto, and a material feeding roller also adapted to'be driven and guides cooperating with each of said longitudinally spaced pairs of finishing rolls to cause the material to be tangentiallyengaged and rubbed at spaced points by one point of the periphery of the 'of the finishing rolls of each pair of finishingr rolls While backed up atsaid points h v the feeding roll, said portions of finishing rolls together with their feeding roll and guides, cooperating with the material to alternately coact with the opposite surfaces thereof.

CHRIST. WERNER. FREDERICK W. P. ROSE. 

